Re: review: CHECK FUNCTION statement

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: review: CHECK FUNCTION statement
Date: 2011-11-30 16:09:13
Message-ID: 1322669300-sup-8099@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié nov 30 12:53:42 -0300 2011:

> A bigger issue is that once you think about more than one kind of check,
> it becomes apparent that we might need some user-specifiable options to
> control which checks are applied. And I see no provision for that here.
> This is not something we can add later, at least not without breaking
> the API for the check function --- and if we're willing to break API,
> why not just add some more parameters to the validator and avoid having
> a second function?

How about

CHECK (parse, names=off) FUNCTION foobar(a, b, c)

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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